Re: Q: # of Foreign Keys on a table?

From: Doug Meredith <doug.meredith_at_skyridge.com>
Date: 1998/01/11
Message-ID: <34b93b1b.25501227@allnews.nb.sympatico.ca>#1/1

Rao Uppuluri <uppuluri_at_IDT.NET> wrote:

>What I want to know is at what point you'd say "enough foreign
>keys!" and build the constraint logic into application code.

I don't think I would ever reach this point. If I saw a couple of dozen foreign keys on a single table, I would want to go back and re-evaluate the data model.

Doug

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